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MJsHusband · 06-14-2012, 08:43 PM

Thanks for thinking of us.
MJ did have a CT scan in March. She was having a lot of pain in her lower right back and abdomen. She was napping one day and I saw her shaking and put blankets on her but it wasn't helping. When her teeth started chattering I took her temperature and it was around 104 so I took her to the ER. She ended up having a kidney stone and an infection in her ureter. Because she was a cancer patient they ordered a CT scan, which didn't reveal any cancer. She did end up with sepsis(104 fever, 400 white cell count per microliter, scary low blood pressure). The ER doctors and later the ICU doctors said it was very important that she got to the hospital when she did. I read into that as a "close call". I will update my signature to note that CT scan.

She has not had a PET since October. Even those scans didn't detect the metastasis to her uterus that appeared in January and was diagnosed as Stage III2c already at that point(when it was first thought to be a second cancer). MJ's cancer seems to be very aggressive once it rears its ugly head. She had a mammogram a few months before her ibc diagnosis. We never felt a lump or two, her breast just suddenly became hard all over in a very short time period. The same with the uterus/cervix, fallopian tubes/lymph mets. Nothing showed in October scans but by January she had excessive bleeding to the point that she ended up in the ER. So, if it comes back, I don't expect it be slow growing at all.

Greg

06-14-2012, 08:43 PM	#30
MJsHusband Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 87	Re: Dizziness Question Thanks for thinking of us. MJ did have a CT scan in March. She was having a lot of pain in her lower right back and abdomen. She was napping one day and I saw her shaking and put blankets on her but it wasn't helping. When her teeth started chattering I took her temperature and it was around 104 so I took her to the ER. She ended up having a kidney stone and an infection in her ureter. Because she was a cancer patient they ordered a CT scan, which didn't reveal any cancer. She did end up with sepsis(104 fever, 400 white cell count per microliter, scary low blood pressure). The ER doctors and later the ICU doctors said it was very important that she got to the hospital when she did. I read into that as a "close call". I will update my signature to note that CT scan. She has not had a PET since October. Even those scans didn't detect the metastasis to her uterus that appeared in January and was diagnosed as Stage III2c already at that point(when it was first thought to be a second cancer). MJ's cancer seems to be very aggressive once it rears its ugly head. She had a mammogram a few months before her ibc diagnosis. We never felt a lump or two, her breast just suddenly became hard all over in a very short time period. The same with the uterus/cervix, fallopian tubes/lymph mets. Nothing showed in October scans but by January she had excessive bleeding to the point that she ended up in the ER. So, if it comes back, I don't expect it be slow growing at all. Greg __________________ 08/10 ~ Dx IBC, Her2+++ ER-/PR- Stage 4, mets to liver. Age 43. 08/10 ~ Began 12 weeks of Taxetere/Carboplatin/Herceptin tx [10/10 ~ Scans show liver lesions are gone. NED! 11/10 ~ Ended chemo. Herceptin-only tx 01/11 ~ Mastectomy 03/11 ~ Radiation 07/11 ~ Reconstructive surgery 10/11 ~ PET/CT shows NED :) 01/12 ~ Malignant tumors found in uterus, cervix, fallopian tubes and lymph nodes. Dx as endometrial cancer. Stage III2c 02/12 ~Hysterectomy(all tumors removed). Back to NED. 02/12 ~ Final Herceptin treatment. 03/12 ~ Began Cisplatin/Adriamycin tx for endometrial cancer. 03/12 ~ Tumors dx her2 metastisis, not entdometrial cancer. Back to BC tx. 03/12 ~ CT scan shows NED. :) 04/12/~ Began Tykerb/Xeloda. 06/12 ~ Ended Xeloda. Continuing Tykerb. Still NED. 09/12 ~ PET/CT scans show NED. : ) 04/13 ~ Rash on original breast biopsied as cancer. 05/13 ~ Surgery to remove skin and tissue around rash. Continue Tykerb. 06/13 ~ PET/CT scans show NED : ) 11/13 ~ Jaundice eyes and skin. CT scan show mets to liver as well as peritoneal carcinomatosis with malignant ascites. Began Abraxane/Herceptin tx. 02/14 ~ CT scan shows NED. :)